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id="_idTextSpan45735" class="CharOverride-5" style="position:absolute;top:1832.63px;left:2377.95px;letter-spacing:-0.65px;">a different era, when it was still referred to as the ‘weaker’ one? When talking about intercourse it was still usual to say “Aleka gave herself to Constantinos with all the might of her soul?” When no meant yes? The one of a Greece in the ‘70s, of the all-boys and all-girls secondary schools, of the porn cinemas in Acharnes avenue, the whorehouses of Filis street where the youths poured in to lose their virgin-ity, an era that he never manages to shake off, when the closest he ever got to a girl was looking at one through binoculars, from time to time at some party or at church? Even if his descriptions of men give you the chills? To the point that, want to or not, it makes you wonder, could Panourgias possibly be one of them? So shallow, so empty, so obsessive, so vain?”

“Even, even, even! Understand this, once and for all: describing a situation is one thing, adopting it is an-other, the writer is one thing and another his charac-ters whom in crafting that way, means he surpasses them and sees them more with compassion, almost

In the logic of ‘keep talking, some of it will remain’, I will allow you to invoke the same line of defence as in the interview.

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pity, than with admiration. Another aspect is also his incarnations which have weaselled their way into his books somewhere.”

“Then maybe, even worse, and personally I’m leaning toward this particular hypothesis: Is he refusing any publicity because he himself rates his works as below average?”

“And still publishes them? Why?”

“He must seek a second opinion, for better or for worse. Besides, he probably thought, you never know, someone might take the bait.”

“Gosh! We’ve not only taken the bait; we’ve fallen right into it face first.”

“Anyway, how do you imagine him to be?”

“It’s strange, but, with every writer, writing and ap-pearance go together hand in hand. One affects, al-most imposes on, the other.”

“It’s almost as though you’re telling me that you would identify him in the same way the victim iden-tifies the perpetrator out of twenty or so ugly mugs at the police precinct, behind a glass screen.”

“Unquestionably.”

+ like Hitchcock in his films.

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“Do you completely rule out the possibility that he might be, I don’t know, pot-bellied, bald, a hunch-back, bow-legged, a cheapskate and an old crock?”

“But it ceases to matter. His work acts as the Pool of Siloam and purifies all of his defects, it rechristens them, it makes them cherishable.”

“Very nice. And now the crucial million-dollar ques-tion: If I were

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